Dental clinic serves children with cleft lips, palates

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The new Advanced Needs Dental Clinic at UNLV’s School of Dental Medicine opened last month. After $1.3m federal grant money and a bill - Senate Bill 280 - passed in the Nevada Legislature this year, resources were put in place to help families with children born with cleft palates and other craniofacial abnormalities to access care locally. James Mah, the dean of the school, observed that before the clinic opened, Nevada was one of two U.S. states that didn’t have a formal cleft palate and craniofacial team of professionals. Alaska is the other